AFTERHRS

Concept Outline

A personal focus and self-knowledge tool that tracks the gap between how long you think time takes and how long it actually does. Over time, this reveals your unique temporal fingerprint- when you enter flow, when you're in survival mode, and what conditions produce each. The output is not just data but a living, handmade garden that is entirely your own.

Who It's For

Students, working professionals, and creatives. People who live in high-cognitive-load environments, struggle with context-switching, and have lost reliable access to flow states. People who want to understand themselves better, not optimise themselves harder.

The Sense Being Tracked

Temporal Introception- your body's felt sense of time passing. Regulated by the same neural systems governing attention, stress, and emotional state. Disrupted in ADHD, burnout, trauma, and chronic stress. Never before tracked as a trainable sense in its own right. The Drift Score is the core metric- the gap between your perceived time and actual clock time. Positive drift means time felt shorter than it was (flow state). Negative drift means time felt longer (friction, stress, survival mode).

Wellness Goals

Flow state identification and optimisation Early stress and burnout detection Improving self-estimation accuracy over time Building a more honest relationship with your own attention

How we built it

We used Figma Jam to initially brainstorm our ideas and come up with a solid foundation and a crisp plan with next steps. Then, we used Figma Design to make all our screens and prototype it for utmost usability. Next, we used Figma Slides to make our functional yet well designed pitch deck. Lastly, we used After effects to make our demo video.

Challenges we ran into

The biggest challenge we ran into was definitely putting it all together. Since this was both me and my teammates first hackathon, it was a little hard to consistently pour into this project for three days. No matter the time, we wanted to deliver best quality work and that was mainly our goal. Achieving that goal took a lot of time and dedication, but I'm confident we were successful in doing so.

What's next for AFTERHRS

We would test AFTERHRS with more students, creatives, and professionals working in high cognitive-load environments to refine the check-in system and improve how the tool supports healthier attention rhythms- helping people better understand their focus, rather than simply pushing them to optimise productivity.